Technology Versus Wrigley Field Center-Field Scoreboard-- Part 1

From the June 28, 2015, Chicago Tribune "Technology 1, Tradition 0" by Blair Kamin.

"A few simple changes can keep center-field board in the game."

In most baseball stadiums, the scoreboard is simply what its name implies-- a medium that delivers the messages of the score, not to mention whatever ads are plastered on it.

"But at Wrigley Field, the center-field scoreboard rises beyond the merely utilitarian and becomes--  I hesitate to use the word, but it fits-- transcendent.  Installed in 1937, the scoreboard is the apse of Wrigley's baseball cathedral, culminating the upward sweep of the bleachers with its symmetrical backdrop of dark green and white.

"The scoreboard's flagpoles, with their flapping pennants, resemble the masts of a yacht, acknowledging nearby Lake Michigan even as they reveal whether the wind is blowing in or out."

Mr. Kamin Sure has a Way With Words.  --CooterField